Steven A Frank

Two UC Irvine professors have been awarded prestigious National Science Foundation grants reserved for the most promising young scientists and engineers, university officials announced Wednesday. Theoretical chemist Craig C. Martens and evolutionary biologist Steven A. Frank have been chosen to receive the foundation's Presidential Young Investigator Awards. The awards, given annually to 200 young U.S. scientists, can mean up to $100,000 in annual research funds and equipment for five years.

Steven Alan Frank was barely 13 when a book on Sigmund Freud piqued his curiousity about the behavior patterns and forces that shape the lives of creatures great and small. Later, as a senior majoring in literature at the University of Michigan in the fall of 1978, Frank was seeking something more when he stumbled on a course by renowned evolutionary biologist Richard Alexander.

Steven Alan Frank was barely 13 when a book on Sigmund Freud piqued his curiousity about the behavior patterns and forces that shape the lives of creatures great and small. Later, as a senior majoring in literature at the University of Michigan in the fall of 1978, Frank was seeking something more when he stumbled on a course by renowned evolutionary biologist Richard Alexander.

Two UC Irvine professors have been awarded prestigious National Science Foundation grants reserved for the most promising young scientists and engineers, university officials announced Wednesday. Theoretical chemist Craig C. Martens and evolutionary biologist Steven A. Frank have been chosen to receive the foundation's Presidential Young Investigator Awards. The awards, given annually to 200 young U.S. scientists, can mean up to $100,000 in annual research funds and equipment for five years.